Hi Chris,
It's fair to say that Red Hat's actions have been disruptive to nearly
all sectors of RHEL user base, but the impact to the hosting community
has been profound. BlueOnyx is not the only control panel that was
caught flat-footed by RH's pronouncements and it may be years before the
ripples are fully settled.
Yeah, and we can be certain that causing these ripples was an
intentional side effect.
The commercial vendor we use for some hosting applications had been
working on their Ubuntu support for a while, but that has certainly
> been fast-tracked to a fully supported (and just short of recommended)
> option. And they've been based on RHEL for as long as we have.
I can imagine. Having another OS (preferably a fully community driven
one like Debian) as potential exit strategy is something we should have
in the pipe. So I'm back at looking at a native BlueOnyx build for
Debian as a long term alternative.
While my company certainly has a hand in many different pots when it
comes to Linux flavors, our comfort zone has been with Enterprise Linux
from the start.
I think this is something we all can relate to. And while it's good that
Enterprise Linux won't go away, the ripples in the water will persist
for quite some time and this isn't helpful.
I find it curious that CloudLinux themselves are offering a free
> distribution although they're funding AlmaLinux.
Indeed, that was a bit of a surprise. Their Cloud Linux had RHEL or
CentOS 7/8/9 as upstream and tacked on some extras for the cloud related
management. Plus they also offered architectural support for platforms
that RedHat no longer offered. Like Arm64.
I guess the early CentOS 8 EOL left them with a gap to fill for their
own needs. Creating AlmaLinux and spinning it off into a self-governing
foundation was an interesting move. I also like the "added value" they
provide, such as their ELEVATE OS upgrade script or the extra Arm64 builds.
I can tell you one thing for certain: Given the mercurial nature of
RedHat's decision making, we will not be considering their product. They
seem to shift directions on a whim, which is not a trait I'm interested
in when making decisions on how best to provide stability and success
for my business. I cannot help but wonder if other managers might be
thinking along similar lines, and if RedHat's actions will ultimately
put then into an also-ran position. Now that would really make things
interesting with the futures of AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CloudLinux etc.
The level of cooperation and collaboration we're currently seeing is
great and hopefully it has the desired effect that RedHat realizes that
further moving of goal-posts might not be in their own best interests. I
heard nobody react to the current situation by saying: "Well, I guess
then I buy some RedHat licenses instead!"
That ain't going to happen and all RedHat managed was to piss off a lot
of the community on whose work they depend via Fedora, Epel, CentOS
Stream. Or developers of those upstream projects which they themselves
are leeching from. Like the combined works under the Apache Software
Foundation's umbrella and others.
There is a lot of resilience in the open source community against
corporate overlords and that can quickly turn into resistance. Which
makes sense: It gives us dragons to slay and we don't even have to leave
the basement for that. :p
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With best regards
Michael Stauber
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